Wild Rift Patch Notes 4.0c

Wild Rift Game Design Team

3/1/2023

Class is in session—Welcome to Patch 4.0c!

Ahem…take your pens out and a blank sheet of paper, it's time for your final. Just kidding, there's no final, but this is the last patch of 4.0! Before we sneak our way into 4.1, we have a few balance adjustments, and the release of Battle Academia Leona and Battle Principal Yuumi!

We’ll see you back here on March 16 for 4.1’s Patch Notes!

Reminder: content will be released throughout the patch.

NEW

GAME MODES

DUEL

There's still some time left to prove you’re the best of the best in Duel Mode! Queue up and show off your 1v1 skills!

Duel will be available to play from February 23 at 00:01 UTC until March 16 at 00:01 UTC.

CHAMPION CHANGES

GALIO

In the past, we shifted some of the damage and ratios around for Galio’s Hero’s Entrance, but we’re going back on this. We’re also making a few other changes in order to buff up tank Galio builds as we have seen them falling significantly behind the Ability Power builds recently.

HERO'S ENTRANCE

Shield duration: 3.5s → 5s
Damage Ability Power ratio: 100% → 70%
Base damage: 100/175/250 → 150/250/350

IRELIA

While this Blade Dancer has been a dominant force in the jungle, she is performing below our expectations in the Baron Lane. To better balance her for both of these roles without making her irelia-vant in either, we’re reducing her jungle clear speed, while increasing the bonus magic damage she gains from maintaining maximum stacks of Ionian Fervor.

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Attack Damage: 64 → 58

IONIAN FERVOR

Bonus attack speed per 1 stack: 5 ~ 20% → 3% ~ 17%
Bonus magic damage: 14~70 → 30~100

MASTER YI

Wuju like to show off your skill more with Master Yi? If so, we're here to help. We’ve seen Master Yi struggling to keep up with other junglers in higher levels of play. To give Yi players some more room for skill expression, we’re reducing the passive Attack Damage that he gains from his Wuju Style ability, but increasing the true damage he gains from activation Wuju Style at the right moment.

Wuju Style

Passive bonus Attack Damage: 10% Attack Damage → 8% Attack Damage
Active true damage: 22/34/46/58 → 30/40/50/60

NAMI

The tides are shifting for Nami! We’re moving some of the power out of her healing and into the movement speed she provides, which should change up her late game playstyle.

Surging Tides

The movement speed of ally hit by skills: 50 + 20% Ability Power → 65 + 20% Ability Power

Ebb and Flow

Healing amount: 55/90/125/160 + 30% Ability Power → 55/85/115/145 + 30% Ability Power

NAUTILUS

Nautilus has been struggling to sink his foes and make impact in the Jungle so we’re increasing the damage he deals to monsters with his Riptide ability.

RIPTIDE

Ability Power ratio: 30% → 50%
Damage against monsters: 150% → 200%

PANTHEON

Pantheon is falling off in the late game harder than we’d like to see. To address this, we’re increasing the passive armor penetration that he gains from ultimate at later levels.

GRAND STARFALL

Passive armor penetration percentage: 10/17.5/25% → 10/20/30%

RENGAR

There are a lot of different build paths for Rengar, but several of them are overperforming in the early stages of the game. We’re cutting down on some extra power while preserving most of his scaling.

UNSEEN PREDATOR

Kill champions to gain bonus Attack Damage: 5/10/15/20/25% → 1/4/9/16/25%

SAVAGERY

Bonus attack speed: 50% → 40%
Empowered Savagery Bonus attack speed: 50% - 125% → 40% - 115%

ZERI

Players have acclimated to Zeri’s lightning fast and zippy combat pattern, and she is overperforming at all ranks. So, we’re stuffing lightning back in the bottle and lowering her damage and reach.

Electrocute!

Basic attack damage: 8/11/14/17/20 + 100/105/110/115/120% Attack Damage → 8/10/12/14/16 + 100/102.5/105/107.5/110% Attack Damage
Spilled attack speed conversion ratio: 60% → 50%

SPARK SURGE

Damage ratio to subsequent enemies: 60/75/90/105% → 50/65/80/95%

LIGHTNING CRASH

Range: 825 → 640
Damage: 150/200/250+80% Bonus Attack Damage + 80% Ability Power → 150/200/250+70% Bonus Attack Damage + 80% Ability Power

ZOE

We know many players hope Zoe wins xD. But she’s been winning a bit too much, especially in situations where she can chain her Spell Thief drops and zoom around in teamfights. We’re cutting down on her movement speed, especially in the later stages of the game.

SPELL THIEF

Bonus movement speed: 35/45/55/65% → 25/30/35/40%
Movement speed duration: 2/2.25/2.5/2.75s → 2s

SKINS

Battle Academia Leona

Releasing March 02 @ 00:01 UTC

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Battle Principal Yuumi

Releasing March 02 @ 00:01 UTC

ACCESSORIES

You can earn or purchase accessories from a bunch of different sources. Please check the relevant page in game for more information on how to get ‘em!

Emotes: Spit Take; Ahem

All accessories will be released throughout the patch

FREE-TO-PLAY CHAMPION ROTATION

Mar 2 - Mar 8: Akali, Janna, Jhin, Jayce, Lillia, Kai’Sa, Olaf, Rakan, Singed, Vex

Mar 9 - Mar 15: Akshan, Corki, Gwen, Kayn, Riven, Thresh, Soraka, Yone, Warwick, Varus